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  Washington (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 Richard Branson could shoot into space on his Virgin Galactic aircraft as its first passenger early next year, the company said, potentially blazing a path for commercial flights. The company has repeatedly pushed back the date it will take the first tourists outside earth's atmosphere and said 600 people have forked out $250,000 to reserve a seat. Virgin Galactic said Monday it "expects to advance to the next phase of its test flight program" in the fall with two manned flights. "Assuming b ... read more |
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Ice sheets, not rivers, carved valleys on Mars, new study saysWashington DC (UPI) Aug 03, 2020 The majority of Mars' valleys were carved by ice sheets, not flowing rivers, calling the Red Planet's supposed warm, watery past into question, according to new research published Monday in Nature Geoscience. ... more  
Cooling of Earth caused by eruptions, not meteorsCollege Station TX (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Ancient sediment found in a central Texas cave appears to solve the mystery of why the Earth cooled suddenly about 13,000 years ago, according to a research study co-authored by a Texas A and M Univ ... more  
Surprising number of exoplanets could host lifeRiverside CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Our solar system has one habitable planet - Earth. A new study shows other stars could have as many as seven Earth-like planets in the absence of a gas giant like Jupiter. This is the conclusion of ... more  
Breakthrough method for predicting solar stormsLund, Sweden (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 Extensive power outages and satellite blackouts that affect air travel and the internet are some of the potential consequences of massive solar storms. These storms are believed to be caused by the ... more |
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Contract signed to build Europe's carbon dioxide monitoring missionParis (ESA) Aug 03, 2020 With the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere approaching levels that humans may have never before experienced, the need to monitor sources of emissions is more urgent than ever - hence th ... more  
NASA's Webb Telescope Will Study Jupiter, Its Rings, and Two Intriguing MoonsBaltimore MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo Galilei that Earth is not the cente ... more  
Machine learning finds a surprising early galaxyTokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 New results achieved by combining big data captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of machine learning have discovered a galaxy with an extremely low oxygen abundance of 1.6% solar abundance, ... more 
The stars that time forgotSydney, Australia (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 An international team of astronomers has discovered the remnant of an ancient collection of stars that was torn apart by our own galaxy, the Milky Way, more than two billion years ago. The ext ... more  
Cosmic tango between the very small and the very largeUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 While Einstein's theory of general relativity can explain a large array of fascinating astrophysical and cosmological phenomena, some aspects of the properties of the universe at the largest-scales ... more |
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State of the Space Industrial Base 2020 ReportKirtland AFB NM (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 The 2020 State of the Space Industrial Base Workshop held in May brought together more than 120 space leaders from across the federal government, industry, and academia to assess the current health ... more  |
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Humanity on Mars? Technically possible, but no voyage on horizonWashington (AFP) July 30, 2020 Robotic landers and rovers have been touching down on Mars since the 1970s, but when will humanity finally set foot on the Red Planet? ... more 
Astronomers find young galaxy with record-low oxygen levelsWashington DC (UPI) Aug 03, 2020 Astronomers have discovered a tiny, young, metal-poor galaxy with the lowest oxygen abundance ever recorded. ... more 
Astrophysicists Observe Long-Theorized Quantum PhenomenaBaltimore MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 At the heart of every white dwarf star - the dense stellar object that remains after a star has burned away its fuel reserve of gases as it nears the end of its life cycle - lies a quantum conundrum ... more 
A new chemical analysis upends conventional explanation for global coolingHouston TX (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Scientists have long known the earth cooled dramatically about 13,000 years ago, dropping temperatures by about 3 degrees Centigrade. There are several theories about the cause. The leading explanat ... more  
Scientists Find Two Meteorites in Two WeeksPerth, Australia (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Curtin University researchers have discovered two meteorites in a two week period on the Nullarbor Plain - one freshly fallen and the other from November 2019. Both falls were captured by The ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
On a cold winter day more than four years ago, representatives from the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory and NASA descended upon Indianapolis for a Destination Station outreach event, hoping to convince a nontraditional partner that research and technology development onboard the ISS could improve their consumer products here on Earth.
Joining the NASA and ISS Nat ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
The second to last piece of hardware for the Artemis I test flight around the Moon has arrived at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch vehicle stage adapter (LVSA) connects the core stage of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to the upper stage, called the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage.
The cone-shaped connector also helps protect the RL10 engine housed in the ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
So, you want to try flying a helicopter on Mars. You work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and have proven time and again that when it comes to landing and operating robotic probes and rovers on the distant Red Planet you pretty much know what you're doing.
But it's never a sure thing when it comes to planetary exploration.
Even as smart as you are about design ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 
With the carrier rocket Long March-5 lifting off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Thursday, China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has embarked on its maiden voyage to brave the challenge of orbiting, landing and deploying a rover on the red planet in one single mission.
"Tianwen," the name of China's Martian exploration project, comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Heavenly Questi ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 
The 2020 State of the Space Industrial Base Workshop held in May brought together more than 120 space leaders from across the federal government, industry, and academia to assess the current health of the space industry and to provide recommendations for strengthening that industrial base.
The State of the Space Industrial Base 2020 report was prepared by space leaders from the U.S. Space ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
As the saying goes, "Necessity is the mother of invention". Given that employers nationwide have scrambled to adopt social-distancing practices that health officials say will help slow the spread of COVID-19, necessity is also paving the way for innovation. As an industry leader in the space domain, The Aerospace Corporation is spearheading the resilient and agile adaptation of new workplace and ... more |
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 Adelaide, Australia (SPX) Jul 28, 2020 
China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country's Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars's surface by early next year.
Similarly, the launch of the Emirates Mars Mission on Sunday marked the Arab world's foray into interplanetary space travel. And on July 30, we expect to see NASA's Mars ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo Galilei that Earth is not the center of the universe in the early 17th century. More than 400 years later, astronomers will use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to observe these famous subjects, pushing the observatory's instruments t ... more |
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 Cairo (AFP) Aug 3, 2020 
The African Union mediated a round of talks Monday between ministers from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Addis Ababa's controversial Nile dam project, an Egyptian ministry said.
The irrigation ministry said another virtual meeting would be held on Thursday following two days of talks between technical and judicial committees.
The US and the EU took part as observers in the latest meeting, ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020 
Although launched more than one month ago, the official operation of the 55th and last satellite of the Beidou-3 Navigation Satellite System was formally announced by President Xi Jinping at a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.
Which makes the BDS system one of the four global navigation systems providing global navigation and positioning services; the other thr ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 27, 2020 
Russian space industry giant Energia is involved in the production of everything from rockets and satellites to space stations and ballistic missiles, and is the prime mover behind the current Russian manned spaceflight programs.
Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia has created and patented a means to fly cosmonauts to the Moon and back without an expensive new heavy-launch rocket. ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), a scientific team has for the first time simulated the formation of a class of stony-iron meteorites, so-called pallasites, on a purely experimental basis.
"Pallasites are the optical ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 03, 2020 
With the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere approaching levels that humans may have never before experienced, the need to monitor sources of emissions is more urgent than ever - hence the Copernicus Carbon Dioxide Monitoring mission being one of Europe's new high-priority satellite missions. Taking the mission a significant step forward, ESA and OHB System AG have signed a contract t ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
Extensive power outages and satellite blackouts that affect air travel and the internet are some of the potential consequences of massive solar storms. These storms are believed to be caused by the release of enormous amounts of stored magnetic energy due to changes in the magnetic field of the sun's outer atmosphere - something that until now has eluded scientists' direct measurement. Researche ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
New results achieved by combining big data captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of machine learning have discovered a galaxy with an extremely low oxygen abundance of 1.6% solar abundance, breaking the previous record of the lowest oxygen abundance. The measured oxygen abundance suggests that most of the stars in this galaxy formed very recently.
To understand galaxy evolution, a ... more |
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 Los Alamos NM (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
Using a quantum computer to simulate time travel, researchers have demonstrated that, in the quantum realm, there is no "butterfly effect." In the research, information - qubits, or quantum bits - "time travel" into the simulated past. One of them is then strongly damaged, like stepping on a butterfly, metaphorically speaking. Surprisingly, when all qubits return to the "present," they appear la ... more |
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